of being, reading + criticism
The First Time as Fact, The Second as Fiction: Hélène Bessette’s Twenty Minutes of Silence (Toronto Review)
Every Abyss Is a Matter of Time (Los Angeles Review of Books)
The Telling Makes It True: On Robert Glück’s “About Ed” (Cleveland Review of Books)
“The Author of the Abortion Is “I”: Against Redemptive Forms and Genres (Post 45 Abortion Now, Abortion Forever Cluster)
We Meet in Darkness: Coral Bracho and Memory in Translation (GASHER)
Mapping Modes of Allegiance: The Radical Translations of Don Mee Choi (On the Seawall)
Both Apply: A Reader’s Notes on Paul Celan’s Letters” (AIR/LIGHT)
Unmailed Letters, Three Rings, the Inheritance, and Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann (Socrates on the Beach)
14 Variations on Silence (Majuscule Lit)
Boxing: Against the Games We Are Given (Guernica)
The Statue (The RUMPUS)
Fourteen Days in Romania (Berlin Review)
No Place (Poetry Birmingham)
“A Series of Hind-Sites: Spaces and Traces in Self-Translation” (Axon: Creative Explorations)
It Is the Light Which Owns Nothing: 18 Ways of Looking at Birmingham (Poetry Birmingham)
Letter to Bucharest Concerning the Use of Blue in Paintings and Music (The Bureau Dispatch)
Eros, Attention, Acceptance: A Writer’s Arsenal (Harriet, Poetry Foundation Featured Blogger)
The Failed Azaleas (Harriet, Poetry Foundation Featured Blogger)
Awl (World Literature Today)—Nominated for Pushcart 2021
Libations in Saturday’s Waters: A Series of Estranged Gestures (Apofenie)
Reading Kafka in the Parabolic Time of Pandemic (Exacting Clam)
17 Reasons I Love Ellipses in Poetry, Prose, and Translation (World Literature Today)—Nominated for Pushcart 2022
Chimeric Enganglements (Harriet, Poetry Foundation Featured Blogger)
“Proximate Postcards 1” in collaboration with Miriam Calleja and Dylan Willoughby (On the Seawall)
Born In the USA (Memoir Mixtapes, Vol. 11)
of poetry + poets
Silvina López Medin's Poem That Never Ends (Cleveland Review of Books)
Lyric Essentials: Alina Stefanescu reads Alice Notley (Sundress Blog)
“the poems we walk among as possible”: Notes with Alice Notley (periodicities)
“Little Time”: Five Questions with Alina Stefanescu (Ashberyland)
What Sparks Poetry: Alina Stefanescu on Uljana Wolf’s my cadastre (Poetry Daily)
On Poetic Closure (Mentor & Muse)
Me & Eugen Jebeleanu (The Operating System)
Silvina López Medin's Excursion (GASHER)
Dandying Through the Agora of Jon Riccio’s Head (The Night Heron Barks)
Maya Jewell Zeller’s Out Takes/ Glove Box (Pleiades)
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris (World Literature Today)
Earthwork by Jill Khoury (Up the Staircase Quarterly)
David Baker’s Whale Fall (The Arts Fuse)
Lauren Slaughter’s Spectacle (World Literature Today blog)
Burning at the Same Time — José-Flore Tappy’s Poem-Portraits (The Arts Fuse)
Hinge by Molly Spencer (On the Seawall)
Sara Borjas’ Heart Like A Window, Mouth Like A Cliff (Another Chicago Magazine)
Susan Martinello’s Little Gears of Time (RHINO Reviews)
Invocations of Time in Recent Poetry by Amish Trivedi and Elizabeth Hughey (GASHER)
An Insomniac’s Slumber Party by Heidi Seaborn (On the Seawall)
Dujie Tahat’s Salat (GASHER)
A Man Ain’t Nothin by Jason McCall (On the Seawall)
Diamond Forde’s Mother Body (Up the Staircase Quarterly)
Julie E. Bloemeke's Slide to Unlock (Up the Staircase Quarterly)
Philip Metres’ Shrapnel Maps (ANOMALY)
William Woolfitt's Spring Up Everlasting (On the Seawall)
Rogan Kelly’s Demolition in the Tropics (Bending Genres)
Darren C. Demarree's Emily As Sometimes the Forest Wants the Fire (Up the Staircase Quarterly)
Luke Hankins’ Radiant Obstacles ( On the Seawall)
Dawn Fool by Kyla Houbolt (The Poetry Question)
Jim Whiteside’s Writing Your Name on the Glass (Empty Mirror)
Ashley M. Jones’ dark // thing (Alabama Writer’s Forum)
Angela Narcisco Torres’ To The Bone (Cleaver)
Julia Cohen's Good Timing & Gertrude Stein (The Bind)
The House That Grief Built: Sarah Carey's Accommodations & Jennifer Horne's Borrowed Light (New Southern Fugitives)
of fictions + narration
Utopia Is Not a State; It Is a Compass: On Patrick Nathan’s ‘The Future Was Color’ (Los Angeles Review of Books)
Dim Light is Best: Pierre Senges’ Silhouettes of Kafka (The Babel Tower Notice Board)
Kate Zambreno’s To Write As If Already Dead and Hervé Guibert’s The Mausoleum (On the Seawall)
A Personal Anthology of Short Fictions (A Personal Anthology, curated by Jonathan Gibbs)
Cristina Sandu’s The Union of Synchronized Swimmers (Up the Staircase Quarterly)
COPY by Dolores Dorantes (On the Seawall)
Jackson Bliss’ Counterfactual Love Stores” (Chicago Review of Books)
Elsa Valdmidiano’s We Are No Longer Babaylan (RHINO Reviews)
Zoschenko’s Unstable We: The Tension of Collective Plurals in Soviet Fiction (Grist Journal)
Jia Oak Baker and Shawnte Orion’s Gravity and Spectacle (Up the Staircase Quarterly)
Jonathan Andrew Pérez Cartographer of Crumpled Maps (EcoTheo Review)
Megan Culhane Galbraith's Memory Book (GASHER)
The Aliens Created by Nation-States: A Review of Voices on the Move: An Anthology about Refugees (Word City Literary Journal)
Accident (GASHER Journal) Nominated for Pushcart Prize 2020
“12; 13; 29; 30; 37” (Revolution John)
Visits with Capra (Dream Pop Press)—Nominated for Pushcart 2021
of etc.
"Mother I Make Up" (Longleaf Review) Nom. for Best of the Net 2018
“The Story Line” (Mutha Magazine)
“You Have Changed” (ChangeSeven)
Mothers Who Die"(Ginosko Literary Journal)
"Black Widow in Birmingham" (Airplane Reading)
"Bunicu Does Orange Beach" (Birmingham Arts Journal)
“The Story Behind The Story: Mother-In-Law Collection” (Fiction Southeast)
"Postcards Against Purity" (Catapult)
“Dear Wigleaf” (Wigleaf postcard)
“Abyss” (How We Are: Writers During Pandemic)
“The Thickness and the Threshold”, a craft essay (Pidgeonholes)
“No Such Person” (Lost Balloon Magazine)
“If Death Is A Dancer” (Dovecote)
“environmental impact statement for a body of water” (Platform Review)
“6 Thoughts on Reviewing Poetry + tips & where to submit reviews” (Trish Hopkinson)